The Bugs Bunny/Road-Runner Movie (1979)

Bugs Bunny reflects on his past cartoon exploits.

Directors:

Chuck Jones, Phil Monroe

Writers:

Michael Maltese, Chuck Jones

Stars:

Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan, Paul Julian

1 nomination.

Cast

Credited cast:
Mel Blanc	...	Bugs Bunny / Daffy Duck / Porky Pig / Marvin the Martian / Wile E. Coyote / Pepe le Pew / Dr. I.Q. High / Hassan (voice)
Arthur Q. Bryan	...	Elmer Fudd (voice) (archive footage)
Paul Julian	...	Road Runner (archive sound)
Nicolai Shutorev	...	Giovanni Jones (singing voice) (archive footage)

Storyline

The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie is basically a collection of Warner Bros. short cartoon features, "starring" the likes of Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and Wile.E.Coyote. These animations are interspersed by Bugs Bunny reminiscing on past events and providing links between the individual animations which are otherwise unconnected. The Road Runner feature at the end consists of sketches from various RR separates (well it does in the 78-minute version anyway).

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Plot Keywords:

daffy duck character | bugs bunny character | elmer fudd character | marvin the martian character | pepe le pew character | 

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Taglines:

It's classic encounters of the funniest kind!

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Genres:

Animation | Comedy | Family | Music | Sci-Fi

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Certificate:

G

Did You Know?

Trivia

One linking scene shows the second time Bugs is associated with Chopin's "Minute Waltz". (The first was in Hyde and Hare.) Here, he is playing it at a very rapid pace, and once he finishes, he states he did it in 30 seconds, and broke a record.

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Goofs

During the space text-crawl, a space appeared in the word "ago" (i.e. a long [...] time a go).

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Quotes

[Last line of the movie, after the the WB logo closes in]
Bugs Bunny: Eat your heart out, Burt Reynolds.

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Crazy Credits

At the end, after the showing of the constellations of Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner, they show the traditional "That's All Folks!" card again. Bugs again appears but this time pushes the little quotation marks at the end back and the whole thing erases itself and the quotation marks scream. It rewrites itself saying "That's Not Quite All Folks!" Bugs Bunny pulls the card showing the credits.

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Alternate Versions

Later cut to 78 minutes for Cable TV and 48 minutes for network TV.

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Connections

Edited from For Scent-imental Reasons (1949)

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Soundtracks

Angel in Disguise
(uncredited)
Music by Paul Mann and Stefan Weiss

User Reviews

Refreshing Repetition

Yes, the gags are somewhat repetitive: Wile E. Coyote plunges to the ground 15 times, is crushed with rocks 11 times and baits the roadrunner three times with "Free Bird Seed." In all, 10 Acme products appear in this movie, in which Bugs Bunny and other characters sport clever disguises no fewer than 12 times. There are five "wabbit season"/"duck season" face-offs. Daffy Duck gets shot 10 times.

But it never gets old. I have loved this movie since I was a little boy, and have viewed it, literally, hundreds of times. That's the genius of Chuck Jones (animator) and Mel Blanc (voices).

The many shorts featured in this compilation include Daffy's battle with an off-screen animator, Bugs fighting a bull and getting revenge on a grumpy opera singer, two intergalactic run-ins with Marvin the Martian, "What's Opera, Doc?" (which is, as Bugs describes it, "the entire 18 hours of Richard Wagner's 'Ring of Nibaloone--Nibalane--Nibalu--Nibalung' ... squashed ... down to seven minutes") and a 20-minute segment of classic roadrunner gags.

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

28 September 1979 (USA)

Also Known As:

The Great American Chase

Company Credits

Production Co:

Chuck Jones Enterprises, Warner Bros.

Technical Specs

Runtime:

98 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1